Anybody who comes across errors or inaccuracies in the User Guide, by all means post here if you wish to discuss the issue, but please also be aware that if you want to get the problem fixed, the best way to ensure that this is done is to PM me with the information. Please include chapter, section and page reference.

Please also keep in mind that because of the nature of Reaper, with frequent software updates and changes, it often happens that information that is accurate at the time of publication is made inaccurate by subsequent developments.

Thanks everybody for your understanding.

PS to MODS: Might be worth making this thread sticky for while please?

2nd Paragraph - "If loop points are linked to times election"
should probably read - "If loop points are linked to time selection"

"Now when you play the project, it will replay over again the area selected for your Loop. This is known as the
Repeat Function. If loop points are linked to times election, the start time, finish time and duration of the selection are also shown on the Transport Bar."

Re: getting the latest version of the user guide on the Reaper website - the site redesign that accompanied the release of Reaper 3.0 seems to have obscured this process a little: the link for the manual is now just to generic "http://www.cockos.com/reaper/manual.php" - it doesn't tell you what version of the PDF you'll get when you click -
it would be good if the release notes for a new version made it more explicit whether it was accompanied by a new version.

Another general point re: screenshots in the manual.
Some of them look a bit "munged".
Some tips of getting nice crisp screenshots:

1. Turn off Window's font anti-aliasing (On WinXP, that means right click on desktop to get Display Properties > Appearance tab > Effects button > and uncheck "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts". (Obviously, this makes things look nicer on a monitor screen, but it just makes screen-grabs blurry)

3. I see the user guide is written in MS Word then converted to PDF using Adobe's PDF Maker. In the advanced settings for that, make sure once more that the PDF distillation process isn't applying mungey JPEG compression to graphics - (it's in the Advanced settings > Images > Colour Images > Compression - try setting it to something lossless like ZIP or lossless JPEG2000. If this makes PDF file size too big (what is "too big"?) for the downloadable PDF, then at least make a different "print quality" PDF for Lulu to sell its printed copies from.

(Not wanting to teach anyone to suck eggs, but the above is the way I'd do it

Re: getting the latest version of the user guide on the Reaper website - the site redesign that accompanied the release of Reaper 3.0 seems to have obscured this process a little: the link for the manual is now just to generic "http://www.cockos.com/reaper/manual.php" - it doesn't tell you what version of the PDF you'll get when you click -
it would be good if the release notes for a new version made it more explicit whether it was accompanied by a new version.

Another general point re: screenshots in the manual.
Some of them look a bit "munged".
Some tips of getting nice crisp screenshots:

1. Turn off Window's font anti-aliasing (On WinXP, that means right click on desktop to get Display Properties > Appearance tab > Effects button > and uncheck "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts". (Obviously, this makes things look nicer on a monitor screen, but it just makes screen-grabs blurry)

3. I see the user guide is written in MS Word then converted to PDF using Adobe's PDF Maker. In the advanced settings for that, make sure once more that the PDF distillation process isn't applying mungey JPEG compression to graphics - (it's in the Advanced settings > Images > Colour Images > Compression - try setting it to something lossless like ZIP or lossless JPEG2000. If this makes PDF file size too big (what is "too big"?) for the downloadable PDF, then at least make a different "print quality" PDF for Lulu to sell its printed copies from.

(Not wanting to teach anyone to suck eggs, but the above is the way I'd do it

Thank you so much for this .... I only wish I had known all this sooner! But at least I do now!

On page 118 of v3.03C, I think the information concerning the UAD plugins should be further clarified.

Quote:

Anticipative FX processing. This can yield large reductions in CPU usage, but too aggressive a setting can cause pops and crackles on playback. This option should usually be disabled for UAD plug-ins.

Due to the improved changes to the UAD-2 driver architecture the UAD-1 & UAD-2 should be differentiated, per card type, for best performance in REAPER:

UAD-1: For best results, both Synchronous FX & UAD-1 Synchronous modes should be enabled (Anticipative FX disabled and is not recommended)
UAD-2: Compatible with Anticipative FX mode and is recommended for best low latency performance.

Due to the improved changes to the UAD-2 driver architecture the UAD-1 & UAD-2 should be differentiated, per card type, for best performance in REAPER:

UAD-1: For best results, both Synchronous FX & UAD-1 Synchronous modes should be enabled (Anticipative FX disabled and is not recommended)
UAD-2: Compatible with Anticipative FX mode and is recommended for best low latency performance.

I just found that if you click on a link from the initial contents page, everything past about 1.16 takes you to page 35 of the manual.

This could be just a problem with me as I am not running the latest adobe.

the bookmarks work fine though.

Thanks, yes I'm aware of this, and trying to find the cause. Meanwhile there are two ways round this:

1. Click on the page number in the ToC instead of the text. That shoudl work.
2. Display Adobe's bookmarks panel and use that - that works, and is better than jumping back to the ToC in the document all the time as it sits in as separate window.

Nicholas, could you add some pencil mode clarifications in the manual (section 6.29)? More specifically:

Clarification 1: Pencil mode creates empty MIDI items when no other items are selected during its use.

Clarification 2: If an item is selected in the project, the pencil mode will create a copy of that item. (I have no clue what happens if multiple items are selected)

Clarification 3 That one got me I thought it was a bug): When cloning a selected item with the pencil mode, the cloned item's contents will start from the place of the *edit cursor* in the project, not necessarily from the beginning of the original item!

I'm new to posting to the forum, so pardon me in advance if this is the wrong place to be asking this, but I was wondering where would be the appropriate place to post errors and issues with the book Reaper Power! I did a search but was unable to come up with anything that fit the bill. Wonderful book, by the way. Also, a wonderful User Guide.

Spelling error in the Title field of the PDF (likely comes from the original Title field of the OpenOffice document). This seems to have been in the doc for quite a while. It shows up prominently when viewing the PDF on iPad, FWIW.

When I "ensure that Show all takes in lanes (when room) is not selected." and I "make sure that Loop points linked to time selection is not enabled"(unchecked), as directed in 3:16.2 I can't Punch Record or make Reaper look like the screen shot that you've provided. If I enable either one it seems to work. What am I missing?

When I "ensure that Show all takes in lanes (when room) is not selected." and I "make sure that Loop points linked to time selection is not enabled"(unchecked), as directed in 3:16.2 I can't Punch Record or make Reaper look like the screen shot that you've provided. If I enable either one it seems to work. What am I missing?

Make sure a recording input is selected.
Try clicking and dragging along the track background area (instead of the timeline) to make the time selection.